In this article, we propose that the scientific knowledge has a public nature. Our knowledge production, therefore, is inevitably connected to the realities socially constructed. We discuss how our knowledge production is connected to the management practices, according to our field research of...

Much of the research on leadership has been conducted by Western researchers and has led to a largely Western and individualistic perspective on leadership. This has led researchers to raise questions concerning the extent to which these theories apply globally. In particular, do Western...

This study is intended as a social scientific investigation as to why in Kyoto alone hanamachi (the Kyoto term for geisha district) areas have maintained their traditions and survived to this day, when most other hanamachi areas around the country lost their competitiveness as an industry and...